I think every candle on this chart represents 500k volume.

Name one.

Avoiding use of services under DDOS only makes DDOS more successful, doesn't it?

I'm trying to circumvent the DOS by using the bitinstant API, which seems to respond from time to time. However, I have a problem. I'm getting the quote all right, but when I try to place my order I get an error.

The error message says: .

My request is POST to the following URL: https://www.bitinstant.com/api/json/NewOrder

The POST data I send is the following (private info concealed):

What am I doing wrong, if anything?

By the way, this error message, obviously not indended for the user to see, seems to contradict the "Treating all errors as potential security flaws" policy described at bitinstant.com/security.

Even though it only allows you to import it once, it will still monitor it for incoming transactions as it seems (for how long?). I've done exactly what you described and Mt.Gox emptied my PK after the transaction got 6+ confirmations. Funds appeared on my Mt.Gox account only after the emptying transaction got its confirmations as well.

I don't do short-term speculation, but when I buy bitcoins I usually place my bids at the current best bid price. They usually get executed and that saves me 0.5% to 1% compared to market order.

What's the big deal about the Bitinstant's bitcoin-funded debit card "scam" anyway? Bitcurex's debit cards seem to be working fine, right?

Скорее бред чем не бред.

Чтобы победить основную цепочку, нужно сделать свою цепочку, суммарная сложность которой больше чем у главной. Таким образом, "мизерной" сложности вам никак не получить. Однако, некоторый выигрыш в сложности (максимум 2x) можно получить из-за разделения сети на две половины, при том что ваши конкуренты майнят в "неправильной" половине.

Кроме того, я не думаю что ботнеты составляют значительную долю хеширующей мощности сети. Хорошо если 5% у них наберется (число с потолка).

Потом, даже если ботовод действительно захватит больше 50% сети, ему ещё нужна мотивация для уничтожения (а это именно уничтожение) экономики Bitcoin. Мне почему-то кажется абсурдным сговор ботовода с верхушкой экономической системы (единственные кому выгодно уничтожение Bitcoin).

Oh, it turns out Mt.Gox does not accept PKs without confirmations. The argument is in vain, lol.

В чем секрет-то? Делаешь ASIC первым, и вся сеть твоя.

It also says "$33 in June 2012". Can't expect much from someone making so bad factual errors, can you?

Also, "there are no taxes", really?

Yes, bitinstant tries to be, well, almost instant (it doesn't always succeed though ). It advertises expected transfer time on the order of minutes. You can do an instant trade on Mt.Gox as well, and an instant transfer of bitcoins to your wallet. So the whole thing should take minutes.

The problem with this statement is that neither blockchain.info nor strongcoin.com seem to do that.

Wrong. Allowing PK import without waiting for confirmations on the emptying transaction carries the same risk as acceptance of any 0-confirmation transactions.

This doesn't make much sense either. The PK purchase is being advertised as instant. You don't need any foresight for that.

Oh, OK! You see, the pool money is not divided based on time spent mining, otherwise people would have to run a bajillion of miners on a single PC to have a chance of getting anything.

The pool earnings are distributed based on the number of solved "shares", where "share" is just a block with reduced difficulty. Most of the shares are useless to the pool because they do not solve the block. However, they are used to demonstrate the effort spent so that when the winning share is found, the winnings can be distributed fairly.

What 
What full share are you talking about? Pool or no pool, CPU mining barely get you anything at all, lol.

I'm not sure about that. After reading their ads I'm under impression they say Mt.Gox does not wait for confirmations when importing private keys. Is that so? If so, then it is a security vulnerability in Mt.Gox, which they exploit to do faster transfers.

On MtGox you have to trade your dollars for bitcoins by placing a buy order.

You can place a Market order if you want it done instantly at whatever price people are currently asking.

Or you can place a limit order (by not ticking the "Market order" checkbox) where you specify the worst price you are prepared to buy at, but if you do that then you have the risk of nobody ever selling at that price.

I don't know why they are selling keys instead of sending bitcoins. Looks a little suspicious. In case they are legitimate, you can claim private keys directly with blockchain.info web client, no need to use Mt.Gox for that. Just go to "Import/Export", "Import Private Key". Make sure to empty (sweep) the private key though so that the person who gave you the private key can't take the money.

Bought 100 BTC more. Very quick and trustworthy!

Isn't that supposed to be 2.16?

That could easily have happened by accident. Here is how:
* One person puts ask at 10.65999;
* Another person tries to outask the first one and puts another ask at 10.65998;
* "Mr. M" comes and creates a buy order without specifying the price manually. Mt. Gox defaults to the best ask price, which is 10.65998. The order is partially filled, the rest you can see on the screenshot.

Huh   Joking, or what? It's variance in luck, not in hashpower.